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this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2026
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Those step can be learn the usual way: trial and error.
I've been cooking for years (at home) and I still learn new thing and scree the meal sometimes. But there is the fun part of cooking: the uncertainty of not knowing if this time will be great, meh or a horror.
Staying motivated here requires a positive mindset. It requires the person to say 'it's okay if this one isn't good, I will learn from it and the next one will be better, and I will keep improving until I am good'.
That mindset is often not present. For someone without that positive mindset, the process is grueling- each step, each burned or bad dish becomes an F on their report card that kills their GPA, not a fun experience that needs more experimentation.
There's so much more to it than motivation. If you mess up a meal, that's money down the drain, and most people (especially those who really should be cooking more often) lack the money to take this kind of risk too often. And when you mess up, how do you know what you did wrong? Was it because I chose the wrong onion? Did I cook it for too long? Not long enough? Did I measure something wrong? Did one of my ingredients go bad? Is it because I bought low quality ingredients? Is there a problem with the minerals dissolved in my tap water? There are way too many possibilities to realistically go through them all by trial and error.
If I were to teach someone how to cook, we'd start with something very basic with very few ingredients, then explore variations where you change one variable at a time to understand how it affects the end results. It wouldn't be through recipes.
And odds are that not knowing how to cook has increased the depth of ones poverty and risk aversion by the time they need to figure out that cooking is mandatory. The longer one waits to cook the more money it has cost them.
You have a strange idea of fun. I'm personally into the part where I get better at it each time.
Type 3 fun is the best fun.
It's only strange if you don't like trying new things.
I like trying new things. I find it very strange.